Dispatch

Steam News · Mar 10

Why did Dispatch's devs push through to make it despite initial disinterest from investors? "Arrogance and stupidity"

It's no secret that those shadowy guys with all the money to fund games generally don't have much interest in narrative heavy, singleplayer games. And yet even still, games like Dispatch continue to do very well for themselves. Even still, for developer AdHoc Studio, the funding process doesn't sound like it was an easy one, but in their self-admitted "arrogance and stupidity," they went on to mak...

Steam News · Dec 17, 2025

Dispatch Season 2 can't take "GTA 6 amounts of time", fret Adhoc, as they decide whether or not to make it

Adhoc Studios still aren't sure whether they'll make a second season of Dispatch, their startlingly popular Telltale-style superhero comedy adventure, but they're thinking about it very "seriously". In brief, they're not confident they can bottle the lightning twice, especially if they want to release another season before 2032. Read more

Steam News · Nov 13, 2025

Why is superhero comedy Dispatch a million-selling success story? It could be that weekly release schedule

The final episode of swish and salacious Telltale-style caped tellydrama Dispatch released yesterday. It's been a surprise hit - according to the gabbling labcoats at GameDiscoverCo, AdHoc's superhero workplace comedy is approaching two million sales. Reasons given for this range from the appealing but uninvestigated - there's a Galactus-sized untapped audience for narrative single player games, a...

Steam News · Sep 16, 2025

Dispatch, the workplace superhero comedy from former Telltale Devs, gets an episodic release date

Telltale Games obviously found a lot of success with its take on The Walking Dead, alongside several other series, but that whole episodic release thing never quite caught on. Even still, some former Telltale Games devs are clearly keen on trying it out again anyway. These devs are called AdHoc Studio, and their game is Dispatch, a comedy adventure game about managing superheroes, which just got a...

Steam News · May 30, 2025

Here's a demo for Dispatch, the Invincible-style superhero comedy from former Wolf Among Us writers

Dispatch is a swanky visual novel with light strategy game elements in which you manage a bunch of reformed supervillains, assigning them to pop-up emergencies around town. So far, I have asked a dancing French assassin to rescue a balloon from a tree, sent a randomly transforming literal batman to thwart a boat robbery, ordered a golem and an invisible woman to break up a barfight between rival v...